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M2 MacBook Pro and Mac Mini coming early?

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Warped9

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I came across this completely by accident—a suggested video when popping into YouTube. It suggest that Apple could use a simple press release to announce the introduction of new M2 MacBook Pros as well as an M2 Mac Mini. The reason for a press release introduction in late January is because these M2 chips are largely a spec and performance bump within existing unchanged chassis.

Make of it what you will.

 
Who knows

I will say if they are 4nm january-april, 3nm june-november.

While “everyone” wants 3nm I am not sure if it will be very quick and we only might get the M3 base model in 3nm this year.
 
Anything’s possible. I’m still calling a March/April release. As that’s 18 months from the last MBP release, but who knows at this point
 
Warped9 said:
I came across this completely by accident—a suggested video when popping into YouTube. It suggest that Apple could use a simple press release to announce the introduction of new M2 MacBook Pros as well as an M2 Mac Mini. The reason for a press release introduction in late January is because these M2 chips are largely a spec and performance bump within existing unchanged chassis.

Make of it what you will.

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I would expect them to either just be announced as a press release or tacked on to a large announcement about other products. All that is expected is a chip upgrade and that doesn’t warrant an event to announce it. Still, as @maflynn posted, it is looking like they are delayed for some reason.
 
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Warped9 said:
I came across this completely by accident—a suggested video when popping into YouTube. It suggest that Apple could use a simple press release to announce the introduction of new M2 MacBook Pros as well as an M2 Mac Mini. The reason for a press release introduction in late January is because these M2 chips are largely a spec and performance bump within existing unchanged chassis.

Make of it what you will.

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Apple would be foolish to release more M2 computers when the M3 is imminent.
 
We are essentially reduced to interpreting tea leaves as bits of sometimes contradictory information leak out.

These MacBooks and Mac Mini were widely expected in the last quarter of 2022, but obviously that didn’t happen. The expectation now is they are delayed until at least this March. But if it was only a slight delay than a press release isn’t out of the question over the next two weeks.

Could they actually skip M2 in these devices, delay the upgrades until M3 is ready and release them in the latter half of 2023? I’m not thinking thats likely because the iMac is also expected to get the M3 and having that many devices introduced around the same time could blunt the focus on each device.
 
Please, stop sharing Max Tech's clickbaiting rumors and speculations. I subscribed to their channel after the release of Apple Silicon but just ignore all of their videos between HW releases. They spit out one of those everyday with "Confirmed" or "the truth" in the title to get views and then change their mind the next day or week saying "we were wrong". They have for quite some time also been using totally unknown sources and leaks from random tweets or Dms and made a whole "confirmed" video about it. They make good Mac tests but between the releases they just act desperate.
 
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I sure hope this is true, but my salt shaker is still pretty full, and I have plenty to spare.
 
It would seem that Apple is running a 18-month refresh cycle for the M-series Macs...?

But there are a few Macs that have gone beyond that, the Mac mini and the 24" iMac; and one Mac that has yet to transition to Apple silicon at all, the Mac Pro...

I am holding to the thought that Apple fully expected to be on the 3nm process at this time, but the world imploded there for awhile...

The M2 should have been whatever the M3 ends up being, but has ended up being a placeholder until the 3nm M3 production can be cranked up to high volume output...

We will see the M2 Ultra Mac Pro, because Apple needs to complete the transition to Apple silicon, but it is not the ASi Mac Pro that Apple wants to release...

It is the ASi Mac Pro Apple has to release, they cannot wait another half a year or more for the 3nm M3 series of SoCs...

So we get a M2 Ultra Mac Pro, basically a Mac Studio with PCIe slots and a second 10GbE port...

this will be helpful to a good number of folks who need PCIe slots but do not want the performance hit of using a TB4 PCIe expansion chassis...

The M3 Ultra & M3 Extreme Mac Pros, those will be the Real Deal ASi Mac Pros; hopefully with much stronger iGPUs and options for ASi GPGPUs...! ;^p
 
Unfortunately we have no idea when the M2 MBP's will be released. The initial rumors were for Spring 2023. Then we have the Digitimes article saying they'll be delayed beyond that. OTOH, Digitimes is notoriously unreliable, and none of the other rumor sources have repeated the Digitimes claim; plus we have the possible leak of M2 max Geekbench performance about a month ago, suggesting they're not that far off. So, as @Warped9 says: We're left with tea leaves.

Plus we have no idea what the performance of the M2 Pro/Max chips will be will be. Will their SC speed be the same as the base M2's (as was the case with the M1 generation)? Or will they, as the leaked result suggests, run at a higher clock than the base M2 and thus have improved performance? Again: Tea leaves.*

*Or you could try extispicy, but that's a bit messier.
 
Won't be surprised if they release it in Q1, since every single Intel/AMD laptop is getting refreshed with 2023 tech by February/March.

They need fresh lineup to stay ultra competitive.
 
the Apple Store are selling nice MacBooks today that should fulfill everyone's computing needs.
unless you are Mork from Ork
 
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